OTD in 1945, Buchenwald Death Camp was liberated from the Nazis by American troops.
Legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow was the first reporter on scene. This is how he began describing what he saw:
"Permit me to tell you what you would have seen and heard had you had been with me on Thursday. It will not be pleasant listening ..."
He then continued "There surged around me an evil-smelling stink. Men and boys reached out to touch me. They were in rags and the remnants of uniforms. Death had already had marked many of them, but they were smiling with their eyes."
Murrow concluded: "I pray you to believe what I have said about Buchenwald. I reported what I saw and heard, but only part of it. For most of it, I have no words.
If I have offended you by this rather mild account of Buchenwald, I'm not in the least sorry."
This commentary offers a clear, powerful statement of why freedom of speech is at the heart of democracy and must be defended, whether the speaker is Charlie Kirk or Jimmy Kimmel, MAGA supporters or MAGA opponents.
All forms of political violence are wrong. That shouldn’t be hard to call out.
But from the dark corners of the internet all the way to the Oval Office, some want to cherry pick which instances of political violence they want to condemn.
Doing so only further divides us.
I am praying for Charlie Kirk and his family. There is no place for political violence in our country. It needs to be condemned and it needs to stop -- now.
Every year, we gather in honor of Yom HaShoah to mourn the more than 6 million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust — persecuted, imprisoned and murdered solely because of who they were and how they worshipped.
It can be hard to comprehend the sheer scale of that horror.
We all have a responsibility to do our part to prevent an atrocity like that from happening ever again — and that means we each have a responsibility to learn, listen, and remember.
“On Sunday when the nation has work off all day we will play half the March Madness games after 9 pm.”
“Why not just play them all during the day?”
“Nobody knows.”
@tpac SUFFS in Tennessee Legislature getting the final vote to give Women the right to vote! @KellyDeanP @Micky_Piet @CokerMD Thanks @tpac for a great upcoming Broadway Season including two historical shows set to music!!
RIP ❤️ Professor Kiah Duggins was among those lost in the mid-air plane collision at Reagan National Airport. Professor Duggins was set to begin a new chapter as a professor at Howard University School of Law this fall. May her memory be a blessing.